Nancy Springer Quotes

#1. "One cannot be a mother without first being a person; family, husband, and children should not be allowed, as is so often the case, to steal a woman's selfhood and her dreams."
Mother to Sherlock, Mycroft, and Enola Holmes by author Nancy Springer

Vannessa Anderson

#2. He sings so softly. Almost a whisper. Not like her father at all. Like the voices they give to the dolls, the men.

Emily Ruskovich

#3. what's life without a spice of stupidity

Nancy Springer

#4. Conform, go crazy, or become an artist.

Nancy Springer

#5. Any use of a human being in which less is demanded of him and less is attributed to him than his full status is a degradation and a waste.

Norbert Wiener

#6. Confound my genteel upbringing! I could not think of any name foul enough to call him.

Nancy Springer

#7. I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour.

Nancy Springer

#8. I think the show has sort of given me a name in this business and allowed a lot of people the opportunity to see what I can do, and it's just sort of like a sweet starting point.

Shiri Appleby

#9. All the words I had prepared turned coward and fled my mind like conscripts deserting a battlefield.

Nancy Springer

#10. The sound of pencils taking notes provided a low scrape and hum, almost like radio interference.

Sara Sheridan

#11. Time is the ultimate equal opportunity employer.

Denis Waitley

#12. I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television is such an influential medium.

Sherri Saum